With shocking clarity, Gates felt his mind probed, like fingers reaching up through the roof of his mouth and searching, searching for lies or deceit.

The answer would come with shocking clarity.

On the way he remembered his dream, suddenly, and with shocking clarity.

It was Sunday morning, and the sound of church bells came pealing with almost shocking clarity through moist, heavy air, and below a ceiling of cloud.

It dawned on her in shocking clarity in the moment following those words that they were utterly alone there at the top of the stairs.

With shocking clarity she realizes she has misjudged the people around her.

One day when Pipphali was inspecting the fields, he saw in shocking clarity what he had not seen before.

The Sept. 11 attacks demonstrated with shocking clarity Al Qaeda's ability to penetrate even those sites already considered likely targets.

And for a moment Cuthbert had a vision of shocking clarity: he saw the two of them in a hut somewhere, the late afternoon sun shining through holes in the roof and dappling their bodies.

He saw her again, with shocking clarity, only it was someplace else, and at once the image was confused, and then he lost it, and he put back on the glove.